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Bluesky's Newest Product: an AI Tool That Gives You Custom Feeds
"What happens when you can describe the social experience you want and have it built for you...?" asks Bluesky? "We've just started experimenting, but we're sharing it now because we want you to build alongside us."
Called "Attie" — because it's built with Bluesky's decentralized publishing ...
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What Made Bell Labs So Successful?
Bell Labs "created many of the foundational innovations of the modern age," writes Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — from transistors and telecommunications satellites to Unix and the C programming language.
But what was the secret...
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Disney Ends $1B OpenAI Investment After Sora's Surprise Closure. What's Next?
Just six days ago — and 30 minutes after a Disney-OpenAI meeting about a project with Sora — Disney's team was "blindsided" with the news Sora was being discontinued, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, describing OpenAI's move as "a big rug-pull."
Even some Sora employees w...
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Do Emergency Microsoft, Oracle Patches Point to Wider Issues?
"Emergency out-of-band fixes issued by enterprise IT giants Microsoft and Oracle have shone a spotlight on issues around both update cycles and patching," reports Computer Weekly:
Microsoft's emergency update, KB5085516, addresses an issue that arose after installing the mandatory cumulative updat...
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SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling
It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But "a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight" after he'd added the optional birthDate field for sy...
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